forth to shew. [Exit Sejanus.] Sejanus EUDEMUS. When will you take some physic, lady? LIVIA. When I shall, Eudemus: but let Drusus’ drug Be first prepared. EUDEMUS. Were Lygdus made, that’s done; I have it ready. And to-morrow morning I’ll send you a perfume, first to resolve And procure sweat, and then prepare a bath To cleanse and clear the cutis; against when I’ll have an excellent new fucus made, Resistive ’gainst the sun, the rain, or wind, Which you shall lay on with a breath, or oil, As you best like, and last some fourteen hours. This change came timely, lady, for your health, And the restoring your complexion, Which Drusus’ choler had almost burnt up! Wherein your fortune hath prescribed you better Than art could do. LIVIA. Thanks, good physician, I’ll use my fortune, you shall see, with reverence. Is my coach ready? EUDEMUS. It attends your highness. [Exeunt.] SCENE II.—An Apartment in the Palace. Enter Sejanus. Sejanus SEJANUS. If this be not revenge, when I have done And made it perfect, let Egyptian slaves, Parthians, and bare-foot Hebrews brand my face, And print my body full of injuries. Thou lost thyself, child Drusus, when thou thoughtst Thou couldst outskip my vengeance; or outstand The power I had to crush thee into air. Thy follies now shall taste what kind of man They have provoked, and this thy father’s house Crack in the flame of my incensed rage, Whose fury shall admit no shame or mean.— Adultery! it is the lightest ill I will commit A race of wicked acts Shall flow out of my anger, and o’erspread The world’s wide face, which no
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